Regimental number | 894 |
Place of birth | Newtown, New South Wales |
Religion | CS |
Occupation | Clerk |
Address | 'Waldraur', Waterview Street, Five Dock, Sydney, New South Wales |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 21 |
Next of kin | Mother, Mrs G L Grange, 'Tunbridge', Balfour Street, Woolstonecraft, Sydney, New South Wales |
Enlistment date | |
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
Place of enlistment | Liverpool, New South Wales |
Rank on enlistment | Sergeant |
Unit name | 17th Battalion, C Company |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/34/1 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A32 Themistocles on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Sergeant |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 17th Battalion |
Recommendations (Medals and Awards) |
Distinguished Conduct Medal (Altered to Military Medal) Work on 9 October 1917 at Passchendaele. Recommendation date: |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 17), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 82 |
Medals |
Military Medal 'For conspicuous gallantry and daring during attack on 9th October, 1917, on PASSCHENDAELE RIDGE. He put great confidence into his platoon. At one time his men were in a particularly waterlogged piece of ground directly in front of a machine gun, which was holding up his advance. He kept his men together and on several occasions stopped to drag bogged men out of shell holes, knowing that every man was required for the attack to succeed. He fell badly wounded, but his platoon so inspired by his example pushed forward and captured the machine gun position inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy.'
Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 76 Date: |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Medals: Military Medal, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |